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It looks like Acer is looking to bolster competition in the monitor market this year, as the company just unveiled a new Predator gaming monitor, sporting a 1440p resolution and 165Hz refresh rate all for less than $500. It sounds impressive, though this did mean cutbacks in some other areas.
For starters, this is a 24-inch monitor, which is rare for 1440p, with most QHD offerings coming with 27-inch panels. Also, the 165Hz refresh rate is not native, it is achieved through overclocking in the OSD (On Screen Display), the native refresh rate for this monitor is actually 144Hz.
With that aside, this monitor does sport a TN panel with 1ms grey-to-grey response time, making it excellent for competitive gamers. It also offers support for 100 percent coverage of the sRGB colour gamut, so colours may not quite match an IPS display, but they'll still be pretty good. Of course, G-Sync is also supported, which has become normal for high-end monitors these days.
The Acer Predator XB241YU also has a ‘ZeroFrame' design, which makes it a good candidate for a multi-monitor setup. Acer's ‘ZeroFrame' naming has been called into question though, as there is still some bezel left on the edge of the display.
You can find all of the tech specs for this monitor, HERE. It should be available in the US soon starting at $499. A UK release date has yet to be confirmed.
KitGuru Says: Those are some pretty great specs on paper considering the price. Are any of you guys currently looking to pick up a high refresh rate 1440p monitor? Or are you sticking to anothe resolution for the time being?
They going backwards? I got my Asus 1440p 27″ 144hz Freesync monitor for $399 in the summer. This is expensive even if it does have Gsync. Should be $399 with Gsync cause its 24″
is a gsync… “Of course, G-Sync is also supported, which has become normal for high-end monitors these days”… G-sync itself is expensive… What model offer 24” gsync $399??
F*** G-Sync and your high prices. This is not a low cost monitor. If it held FreeSync, you could price it at $300 and people would buy it.
G-Sync is just an expensive gimmick imo, FreeSync is free and open-source and could easily work with nVidia cards if nVidia themselves added some drivers for it…
still too expensive and acer
Acer makes some quite decent products, hell my acer monitor has better performance for its resolution then many other monitors owned between myself, and a few family members, does not hurt that their “burnt pixel policy” is superior to many of the big makers such as samsung, LG etc…Samsung has 3 burnt pixels when got brand new but because they were not “proper” for the warranty for such, could not get a replacement, guess which was far more expensive, the monitors that DO NOT have solid no dead pixel return/repair/refund policy.
Long story short, Acer makes solid products, judge them based on spec, not name IMO that is perfectly fine, in this case, pricey to a point, but the whole concept of Gsync is just crap, makers need to NOT support crap like that, it just drive cost up for consumers, $20 cost to them becomes $100 or more cost to consumer, and Nvidia and their BS laugh all the way to the bank.
And we both know that wont happen not when they can make money off gsync